The Road Ahead

© Sybille Sterk

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A nasty cold has prevented me from doing very much this week. However, here's one I prepared earlier. The image was taken in Cambridgeshire, edited in Photoshop and furnished with a quote by Lewis Carroll. The font is Pacific Northwest by Cultivated Mind.

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The Right Road

© Sybille Sterk

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Quick pic taken a while ago. I have a thing about horizons and roads. I find them enticing and forever fascinating. The quote is by Dejan Stojanovic, a Serbian poet.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought.  Font is: Edited with Photoshop.

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On the Road Again

© Sybille Sterk 

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Country lane in Cambridgeshire, UK. Inspired by the song 'on the road again' by Willie Nelson. Country music is not my thing normally but there are exceptions and this seemed to fit perfectly.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. 

Edited with Photoshop.

Grunge Texture by Vanilla Spring

Arrows, Sample Me by LaRue & Com both from CreativeMarket

Font Bella K. Hopeless

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

the road goes ever on

© Sybille Sterk

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The words are by Tolkien from a song mentioned in The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings. There are various versions of it. The image was taken at the Gog Magog Hills in Cambridge. It's a lovely quote and it talks (to me) of adventure and new beginnings, of excitement and things beckoning. It's also a good metaphor for life, because no matter how much we want to stay sometimes, life goes on, which sometimes is a good thing and sometimes not so good, but we don't get to choose.

All images/textures/brushes my own or bought. Edited with Photoshop.

All my images are available on Redbubble, Artflakes, Society6 and Bluecanvas as prints, cards, posters, skins for laptops, Blackberry, iPhones and other phones (for the skins go toBluecanvas). You can now also get most of my images on cushion covers (go to Society6 for these).

the long road home

© Sybille Sterk

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Home is a strange thing. It's made up of lots of little things and we never know what they are until we lose them and have to find them anew.

You can read the poem quoted in the image here

I lost my way

amongst the stars

infatuated by a

gleaming blue light

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-00288

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

The High Place

© Sybille Sterk
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This is a mystical high place where we make our choices and where everything is possible. There is mystery and hope and possibility and magic.

The image has been constructed from my own photographs using Photoshop and one of my freebies - Cool Vintage Curves available here - (I used golden sunrise). The original image had a boring sky so I added more clouds and the birds and played around with colour and textures.

The Open Road

MCN: C2R7P-GP96P-RDPJH

This was taken whilst driving home one day (I wasn't driving, just in case you're wondering). I loved the vista and the promise of the open road. A sort of Thelma & Louise feeling...

Part of my new series of images for licensing on Arcangel-Images - use this code: SYST-0096

Created with my own photographs in Photoshop, no stock used.

Travels With An Umbrella - Photo Manipulation

 

 

 

Another mock bookcover. They ARE great fun. :-)

Only after I added the title and the image was almost finished did I realise that it looked a bit like a dark version of a Mary Poppins novel... Now there's an idea. LOL

Credits

Model

• PQ Black Winter by PirateQueen-Stock

Stock

• and more birds by mimose-stock

Backgrounds and Textures

• ghost road by foureyestock
• Square 154 by Shadowhouse
• Hauntings 3 by Shadowhouse

Brushes

• Hair brush set by para-vine

Action

• Yummy Sundae by Apples & Sisters

Font

• Kingthings Printingkit

All other images/textures/stock/brushes my own.

MCN: CQFS4-6KJNT-6LVDN

The Witch is Dead! - Photo Manipulation

 

Welcome to the alternative, dark version of Oz, where the witch is well and truly dead (although, personally, I think that's a shame), where the Tin Man has been turned into scrap metal and the Lion into barbecue. ;-)

Read the interview here.

Inspired by the interpretations of Oz as found in Stephen King's Dark Tower series and Tad Williams' Otherworld

Credits
Model

• green shoes by xstockx

Stock

• road 6 by night-fate-stock
• Cornwall 26 by lusete
• Dark Sky by raven2663
• Fire Stock by Zuziza

Textures

• Arterial Spray by pendlestock
• Free blood splatter textures by khaosdog
• Bokeh Texture Pack 001 by regularjane
• Smoke textures by mysnapz

All other images/textures my own.

MCN: CTLHA-SLA5S-UPHVQ